Employee adoption of corporate blogs: A quantitative analysis

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Wattal, Sunil ^a   Racherla, Pradeep ^b   Mandviwalla, Munir ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC LITERATURES; COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATIONS; INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS; INNOVATION DIFFUSIONS; MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATIONS; NEW FORMS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH PLANS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL NETWORKS; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTIONS;

INNOVATION; PERSONNEL;

INTERNET;

EID: 78650760203     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.188     Document Type: Conference Paper

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